Priscilla director Stephan Elliott (pictured) will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Equality Dinner in Sydney to raise funds for Australian Marriage Equality (AME).

A funding appeal is on to make a feature film about two school friends awakening to their sexuality.

English TV celebrity Stephen Fry’s praise of a film about a Sydney schoolboy coming out to himself caused so much interest it crashed the film's host site.

John Paulk, who was the poster boy of so-called gay conversion therapy in the US, has come out as “still gay” and denounced the ‘ex-gay’ movement.

The story of iconic entertainer Carlotta is coming to the small screen with Australian actor Jessica Marais in the lead role.

There have been more protests against equal marriage in France, following the government’s announcement that it will fast-track a law allowing same-sex marriage this week.

In what is no laughing matter for France’s equal marriage advocates, the comedienne at the head of France’s anti-gay marriage rally group Manif pour Tous (Demo for All) has criticised the government for fast-tracking the passage of marriage in the French assembly.

The world of mainstream comics has its first transgender hero. DC Comics’ Batgirl #19 published this week features a scene where Batgirl’s roommate Alysia Yeoh reveals she is a transwoman.

The twittersphere was prematurely mourning singer and actor Cher this week, after the hashtag #nowthatchersdead – ‘Now Thatcher’s dead’ – was misread as ‘Now that Cher’s dead’.

TV actor Sarah Gilbert (Roseanne, Big Bang Theory, The Talk) and girlfriend musician Linda Perry have announced their engagement.

Emmy and Tony Award-winning star of stage and screen Kristin Chenoweth will be hitting Australian shores in June, starting at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival and finishing up with a grand concert at the Sydney Opera House.

Former US President Bill Clinton will receive an award from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) this month for supporting same-sex marriage.

Lesbian icon k.d.lang has been named Best Canadian Singer by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

The new Pope is expected to maintain the Catholic Church’s conservative stance on same-sex marriage and homosexuality.

CNN journalist Anderson Cooper came out as gay in July, but has been silent about his experience. Now he says “being gay is a blessing”.